Assistant Management Accountant in Colwick
Posted by Cherry Professional
£35,000 – £40,000 a year
Colwick · Permanent
Nottingham, NG4
Full Time – Hybrid (2 days in, 3 day wfh)
Client is a well-established, product-led organisation with a complex supply chain / assembly and warehousing environment and a newly-evolved inventory accounting function. This is a replacement hire with genuine scope for progression (but patience is required)
The opportunity
This is not a standard month-end MA role. The focus is inventory / stock / costing with a strong analytical bias—someone who enjoys interrogating data, spotting anomalies and owning a specialist process end-to-end, with plenty of stakeholder contact across operations.
Key responsibilities
- Own the inventory accounting process: inventory control, reporting, valuation movements and exception analysis
- Investigate anomalies (e.g., moving average price shifts, write-offs, unusual stock movements) and explain root causes
- Support physical stock counts, review stock adjustments and support write-off approval / investigation
- Build a solid operational understanding of POs, sales orders, inventory flows, in-transit stock and transaction impacts
- Partner with Inventory Managers, Supply Chain, Warehouse ops and Finance to resolve discrepancies and improve controls
- Support broader close activities (month/quarter/year end), including accruals, prepayments, balance sheet recs
- Support audit requests and control requirements (SOX-style environment mentioned)
- Contribute to systems/process improvement (automation/AI initiatives are encouraged)
- Inventory / stock accounting exposure in a product / manufacturing / distribution environment (service-only backgrounds won’t suit)
- Strong analytical mindset: comfortable challenging data, investigating variances, and working independently
- Confident navigating ERP systems (inventory modules/data extraction) — SAP desirable, but ERP systems such as Business Central / Dynamics / Oracle etc. all considered
- Someone who can own a process without heavy day-to-day hand-holding
- Likely suits a part-qualified (or QBE with the right experience) finance professional with an appetite for gradual progression
- They care more about mindset and capability than a specific qualification status
- You’ll be excel capable and ideally SAP experienced with BI exposure also (can be flexible on this pending level of accounting experience relevant to the role)
Interested?
If you have inventory/stock accounting exposure and want a role with real ownership, analytical challenge, and a clear pathway into management accounting
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